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2. I do university-level writing and have been doing that for many many years and I use the forms that you find to be wrong. Nobody has ever said anything about that yet. Fingers crossed.

3. From Oxford Dictionaries:

her

used after the verb ‘to be’ and after ‘than’ or ‘as’:it must be her
he was younger than her
See her (usage) below

Usage

Is it incorrect to sayI am older than her (rather than I am older than she) or it‘s her all right (rather than it’s she all right) and, if so, why? For a discussion of this issue, see personal pronoun (usage)

Where a personal pronoun is used alone without the context of a verb or a preposition, however , the traditional analysis starts to break down . Traditionalists sometimes argue, for example, that she‘s younger than me and I’ve not been here as long as her are incorrect and that the correct forms are she‘s younger than I and I’ve not been here as long as she. This is based on the assumption that than and as are conjunctions and so the personal pronoun is still subjective even though there is no verb (in full form it would be she‘s younger than I am). Yet for most native speakers the supposed’ correct ‘form does not sound natural at all and is almost never used in speech. It would perhaps be more accurate to say that, in modern English, those personal pronouns listed above as being objectiveare used neutrally — i.e. they are used in all cases where the pronoun is not explicitly subjective. From this it follows that, despite the objections of prescriptive grammarians (whose arguments are based on Latin rather than English), it is standard accepted English to use any of the following: Who is it? It’s me!; she‘s taller than him; I didn’t do as well as her.